For a few dollars more …

Federal UFO disclosure will happen on a Friday evening, probably between 5 and 7:30, with a brief White House announcement. The POTUS will then direct viewers to a hastily assembled panel of leaders — civilian and military, anchored by luminaries in science — each of whom will offer prepared statements before opening it up to a media Q&A. World markets will have a weekend to assess public reaction before opening for business on Monday.

Stephen Bassett says the obstacles to UFO disclosure are fragile enough to be pushed aside for as little as $250,000/CREDIT: redicecreations.com

What might fuel this sudden policy reversal? A “mock hearing” chaired by half a dozen or so former congressmen charged with interrogating UFO witnesses and whistleblowers, for five straight days, at a public venue in Washington, D.C. What might it cost to assemble such a forum? A steal, maybe $250K. Did you get that — rocking the entire world for a lousy quarter-million bucks.

Stephen Bassett’s magical mystery tour — and its formula for ending the “UFO truth embargo” — played out at Braden River Library last weekend before nearly three dozen listeners with the UFO and Paranormal Group of West Florida. Cranking on all cylinders, pausing only for a 20-minute snack break, the energetic two-and-a-half hour power-point presentation was a thing to behold.

“Is it possible,” Bassett wondered, after detailing President Clinton’s interest in UFOs, that the impeachment trial was staged “to prevent (him) from becoming the first disclosure president?” Did Hillary Clinton forsake a $30 million private-sector job to become Secretary of State “to protect Bill’s legacy” in this field? Did the U.S. military-intelligence establishment reject George Bush as its appointed disclosure agent “because he’s not as smart” and he “went rogue”?

Evoking images of the early civil rights movement, women’s suffrage and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, America’s only registered UFO-disclosure lobbyist likened his audiences to “the Christians who met in underground rooms and catacombs in the years after Christ’s death,” their mere presence subversive and infectious. With self-deprecating humor, he retraced his gypsy journey to this very moment, beginning with the formation of his Extraterrestrial Political Action Committee in 1996 — “when I was staying in the attic of my aunt’s house.”

Bassett’s campaign on the margins now extends well into the 21st century. Following the death of his patron Sandy Wright last December and a $38,000 debt from National Press Club X-Conference in May, the one-man-band known as the Paradigm Research Group has been staging presentations just like these, from Europe to Australia, in hopes of finding sponsors to square the ledger and fund his proposed final-straw hearings. Because the keys to the kingdom are within our grasp, and at just a fraction of the cost of a Hollywood movie.

The PA system announced the library would close in 30 minutes. Bassett was still going, flashing through his points at a frenetic pace, his Bradenton audience still hanging tight. The warning came again, 10 minutes later, as he was detailing a post-disclosure nirvana of clean energy, where civilization’s corruptions — environmental, structural and aesthetic — are cleansed by ET technology. He could go on for another hour. At least. Listeners applauded. The future is bright. And irresistable. For only $250,000.

15 comments on “For a few dollars more …”

A minor point of clarification. I do not say the impeachment of Bill Clinton was “staged” as a matter of containment. Impeachment was the end game of an extraordinary seven-year attack on Clinton’s presidency. My contention is that a major unacknowledged factor behind those attacks was the fear by elements within the national security realms that Clinton might act on Laurance Rockefeller’s initiative to convince him to release all UFO files in government hands, which would have ended the UFO/ET truth embargo.

A curious amount of witness testimony describes humanoid entities (eg http://ufos.about.com/od/bestufocasefiles/p/papua.htm ). Sometimes they even wave back.
Disclosure with a small ‘d’ may happen any number of ways. I agree that we have tough social & psychological hurdles to get over, but mankind will have to learn to deal with the truth, one way or another. (Generally speaking, I believe that womankind is a lot more adaptable and will cope far better).
I doubt the truth represents one extreme or the other but is to be found somewhere between wishful thinking and outright xenophobia.

There will never be any kind of overt or formal US government disclosure of the presence of advanced non-human intelligence in our or our grandchildren’s lifetimes. We’re not dealing with humanoids. They are so very and utterly different that to disclosure their presence would cause mass hysteria, chaos, economic disruption on an unprecedented scale, and a whole host of other schisms and disruptions along political, nation-state, religious, ethnic, and other lines. Forget it. It will not happen. Bassett and the other exopolitical junkies who think otherwise are either delusional and naive, or just looking for funding from other gullible believers. The disclosure movement is a fraud, you know, like Steven Greer is also.

Disclosure probably won’t happen in the form of a press briefing, but begin with a runaway story about a specific incident. It’ll be a story with a lot of momentum to keep it rolling (consider the weight of the testimony relating to Roswell, Rendlesham and the recent Nukes & UFOs briefing, all of which failed to break into our daily reality). Perhaps a daylight UFO crash (an unmanned/unaliened drone will do) somewhere public, or someone high up in the chain ‘finding God’ and ‘fessing up. When disclosure starts it won’t be because it was planned – after 60 odd years where’s the payoff in revealing the truth?

The idea that it’s as simple as $150,000 = disclosure if you can just organize the ultimate press conference, then finally, finally the truth will come out…………….. seems just a tad wishful and oversimplified thinking perhaps delusional.

I can’t imagine with so many problems facing the country that Obama and his staff sit around strategically planning when to “disclose” something they probably don’t know much about while they sit on the 200 free energy machines they keep under their desks waiting to bust them out during the next election.

If there is a ‘disclosure’ I would imagine it will be a release of data to the larger scientific community to study and admitting that indeed this stuff is very real, we’ve been collecting and confiscating evidence/data for a long time and we don’t know what the hell it is!

I’ve sometimes thought the mythology that is created about the US ability to replicate “Alien Technology” may have been created to scare competing countries (particularly during the Cold War) that the US has an Ace up it’s sleeve. It certainly seems to have created an aura of mystery about what the US has in it’s back pocket if it ever came down to it.

The confidence with which some of these UFO people talk about what the government knows, what is going on, how everything is going to play out with disclosure is nutty.

I might as well join along – “some of my inside sources tell me disclosure is going to happen during halftime at the superbowl this year in between Aerosmiths set. In fact it will probably happen right after the guitar solo in Sweet Emotion. Once that happens, a Free energy device will be parachuted in by Cris Angel. After this happens, the game will continue and people will still have to go to work tomorrow.”

I won’t be contributing to Steve Bassett’s effort. The dubious goal of “disclosure” aside (I don’t think anyone in the position to do so knows anything about it), he doesn’t seem to have a very tight grip on reality. (What’s keeping Bill Clinton from talking now, Steve?) He joins a long line of well-meaning (and some not so much) people who’ve beaten the bushes of the UFO phenomenon but, disappointingly, have proven to be more of a hindrance to the subject being taken seriously in the end. It’s a difficult thing. While I welcome the public testimonies of the people (well, some of them) put together by the likes of Bassett or Steven Greer, the organisers themselves leave a bad taste and, ultimately, probably tarnish the lot for many people.

At least in the latest event, conducted by Robert Hastings, and Bob Salas, the only teeth grinding on my part was due to some of the … well, dubious “media representatives” who attended.

If healthy human curiosity were the only psychological factor at play, this field would by now be much more thoroughly understood. Unusual phenomena would not alone deter their serious study, presumably to the benefit of researchers and mankind. So something else must be at work to make this subject taboo for science, the media, and the general public. Whether due to an innate fear of the unknown, or through actions of a shadow government entity, there is a perception that adverse consequences will result from dealing with or openly discussing it. To overcome this perception, there may have to be a critical mass of evidence to the contrary, so that the subject becomes perfectly “respectable”. One way this might be achieved is by having it discussed objectively in the mass media, until the unthinkable becomes ordinary. Of course, a few more enlightened benefactors to sponsor research wouldn’t hurt either

‘Read today that the CERN folks might be in a position to find extra dimensions as soon as next year. I wonder if developments like that and recent advances in containing anti-matter are going to affect this general area of study/interest.

Stephen Bassett rules. I saw him speak in Cape Coral the week before. Until then I’d never heard another person talk firsthand about ET visitation and the need to Disclose. Though I’ve known and cared about the issue for a couple years, I almost freaked out and left when he started. There’s a UFO taboo in the most clinical sense of the word; when it wasn’t coming from me or to me via the internet, my mind flipped out. Now I know why people poop their pants when I broach the subject. Not like I’ll stop.

You’re probably right about Larry’s lineup being already fixed. I only note that tonight’s guest, Oksana Grigorieva, only just last week heard a court issue a decision in her child support case against Mel Gibson, and it doesn’t seem likely she would risk her legal position by booking a TV appearance before the outcome of that decision. Also, Larry hosted Capt. Sullenberger and his crew less than one month after their feat, so apparently revisions are made for exceptional cases.

‘A’ for effort, Lou, but I guarantee King’s final shows are already mapped out, done deals. Maybe if you’d contacted him/them a few months ago~

I do like the idea of a grassroots movement to contact the media though. “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” made me believe in the power of the people again after having believed for a long time that fighting the status quo is just whistling into the wind

Sincere wishes to Steve Bassett for success in his effort. In the quest to prompt movement on the Disclosure front, I’m taking a somewhat different approach. I have just emailed CNN’s Larry King Live Show whose, final segment airs December 16th.. Part of my message reads “As your lasting legacy to the public you have served for so long, I urge you on a segment airing before your retirement to seriously consider moving the discussion to a new level. Instead of a contrived debate between witnesses and skeptics, I suggest you assume that the issue has either already been resolved in the affirmative, or that such confirmation is pending. In this situation, what would official disclosure mean to institutions of government, science, religion, business, and the person in the street? How would they react, and what effect could be expected from that action?”
I then recommend he have as guests Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel. As a final deal sweetener, I added “Your airing of such a segment could be a watershed in television history, with broad and lasting impact on the media and society.” No telling what effect this suggestion will yield, but it seemed worth a try. I urge others to send their suggestions to media platforms of their choice.